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Rowlandson Captivity Quotes
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Move to an Indian Village on the Ware River
"A very wearisome and tedious day I had of it; what with my own wound, and my child's being so exceedingly sick, and in a lamenttabele condition with her wound. If may be easily judged what a poor feeble condition we were in, there being not the least crumb or refreshing that came within either of our mouths from Wednesday night to Saturday night, except only a little cold water." - Rowlandson, page 40 -
The Move to an Indian Village on the Ware River
"About two hours in the night, my sweet babe like a lamb departed this life, on February 18, 1675. It being about six years and five months old. It was nine days from the first wounding, in this misrable condition, ... I have thought since of the wonderful goodness of God to me, in preserving me in the use of my reason and senses, in theadistressied time, that I did not use wicked and violent means to end my own misrable life." - Rowlandson, page 41 -
The Move to and Indian Village on the West River
"'Me have ye bereaved of my children, Joseph is ont, and Se=imeon is not, and ye will take Benjimin also, all these things are aginst me '(Rowlandson quotes Jacob's lament in Genesis 42:36). ... Where upon I earnestly entreated the Lord, that He would consiter my low estate, and show me a token for good, and if it were His blessed will, some sign and hope of some relief." - Rowlandson, page 41 -
The Move to an Indian Village on the Ware River
"... my son came to me... and I knew not where he was till I was informed by himself, that he was amongst a smaller parcel of Indians, whose place was about six miles off; with tears in his eyes, he asked me weather his sister Sarah was dead; and told me he had seen his sister Mary, and prayed me, that I would not be troubled in referencing to himself." - Rowlandson, page 42 -
The Fifth Remove
"The first week of my being among them, I hardly ate anything; the second week, I found my stomach grow very faint for want of something; and yet it was very hard to get down thier filthy trahs: but the third week, though I could think how formerly my stomach would turn aginst this or that, and I could starve and die before I could eat such things, yet they were sweet and savory to my taste.." - Rowlandson, page 44 -
The Sixth Remove
"And I fell aweeping which was the first time to my remembrence, that I wept before them ... There one of them asked me, why I wept, and I could hardly tell what to say: Yet I answerd, they would kill me: 'No,' said he, 'none will hurt you.' Then came one of them and gave me two spoonfuls of meal to comfort me, and another gave me half a pint of peas." - Rowlandson, page 44 -
The Move to the Ashuelot Valley
" ... and there I found a squaw who showed herself very kind to me, and gave me a peice of bear. I put it into my pocket ... In the morning I went to the squaw, who had a kettle of groundnuts boiling; I asked her to let me boil my peive of bear in the kettle, which she did, and gave me some groundnuts to eat with it: And I cannot but think how pleasent it was to me." - Rowlandson, page 45
